BUNNY BRISSETT IS A NATIVE OF PITTSBURGH, PA (USA). SHE IS WELL KNOWN FOR HER MELODIOUS ROOTS HARMONIES AS WELL AS BEING A SOLO SINGER. BUNNY STARTED SINGING AT A VERY EARLY AGE IN SCHOOL AND CHURCH CHOIRS. HER LOVE FOR MUSIC CONTINUED INTO HER TEENAGE YEARS WHERE SHE WAS A MEMBER OF GIRLS’ GROUPS UNTIL SHE WENT OFF TO COLLEGE.
AFTER FINISHING COLLEGE, BUNNY WORKED AS A FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER IN FRANCE AND NEW YORK CITY, WHERE SHE RESIDES TODAY. WORKING ON A BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS PHOTO ASSIGNMENT AND SEEING THE I-THREES ON STAGE, INSPIRED BUNNY TO PICK UP A MICROPHONE AGAIN.
BUNNY’S LOVE OF REGGAE MUSIC LED HER TO HER FATHER’S HOMELAND OF JAMAICA, WEST INDIES WHERE THE PULSATING SOUND OF HER ORIGINAL MATERIAL WAS MASTERED IN SOME OF THE BEST KNOWN STUDIOS AND MOST POPULAR DANCEHALLS IN KINGSTON, JAMAICA. IN THE DANCEHALLS, BUNNY PERFORMED AS A SOLO ARTIST AND IN COMBINATION WITH REGGAE DJ’S, TONY REBEL, GENERAL TREES AND DJ SOULJAH.
BUNNY FEELS BLESSED AND PRIVILEGED TO HAVE WORKED WITH HER MENTOR AND LONG TIME PRODUCER FRIEND, THE LATE GREAT AUGUSTUS PABLO. “PABLO GREW ME UP IN REGGAE MUSIC LEADING ME BY THE HAND AND ENCOURAGING ME ALL THE WAY. PABLO WAS LIKE THE FATHER AND WE, HIS CHILDREN. SO AT ROCKERS INTERNATIONAL, WE WERE ALL FAMILY.” UNDER PABLO’S PRODUCTION, BUNNY WROTE AND RECORDED SEVERAL SINGLES AS WELL AS HER LP, “BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY’,WITH VOCAL ARRANGEMENTS BY ROCK/POP VOCALIST, BJ NELSON. BUNNY ALSO APPEARS ON A FEW OF PABLO’S ALL STAR LPS.
ANOTHER PRODUCER AND MENTEE OF AUGUSTUS PABLOWAS CARLTON HINES (OF RUMORS FAME). CARLTON PRODUCED SEVERAL SONGS FOR BUNNY, TWO OF WHICH WERE “DON’T WANNA TRY” AND “GU WEY” FEATURING ANGIE ANGEL. THE SUCCESS OF THESE TWO SONGS FOUND BUNNY AND ANGIE ANGEL PERFORMING TOGETHER AT TWO MAJOR VENUES, REGGAE ON THE RIVER AND STING.
THROUGHOUT HER CAREER, BUNNY HAS SHARED THE STAGE WITH SOME OF REGGAE MUSIC’S GREATEST WHICH INCLUDE, DENNIS BROWN, GREGORY ISSACS, BERES HAMMOND, JUDY MOWATT, GARNETT SILK, EVERTON BLENDER, MARCIA GRIFFITH, SLY AND ROBBIE, MIKEY DREAD, THE CONGOS, NASIO FONTAINE, ANTHONY B, KYMANI MARLEY, MIKE LIVINGSTON, AND NIGERIA’S I-KAY (CD “AFRICAN DANCE”)
BUNNY HAS BEEN WORKING WITH ISRAEL VIBRATION FOR THE PAST TEN YEARS AND WILL BE TOURING EUROPE AND AMERICA BEGINNING IN THE SPRING OF ’09.
BUNNY IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON A NEW SOLO ALBUM TO BE RELEASED FALL 2009.
THANX 4 THE INQUIRY: THE MUSIC THAT U CAN HEAR ON THIS SITE IS NOT THE ONLY TYPE OF REGGAE U WILL HEAR. THERE R SO MANY TOPICS THAT TO JUS' SING ONE TOPIC ALTHOUGH IN PRAISE OF THE LORD WOULD NOT REACH AS MANY PPL AS IT SHOULD. MY ALBUM TOUCHES THOSE SUBJECTS CAH THAT IS LIFE AND I KEEP U INFORMED..../HOPE U ENJOY, FEEL FREE TO COMMENT......BLESS UP
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